Example sentences of "[prep] him and [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Three of the remaining four were working together until Sunbury when Anderson and Ferrari missed the rollers , allowing Pereira to break away but Andersen chased after him and passed him before the finish .
2 ‘ I can easily go back to normal , ’ Maggie got out quickly but he reached out and captured her hand , spinning her towards him and catching her in his arms .
3 He now thrust his arm out and pulled her tightly towards him and waltzed her round the table , saying , ‘ One , two , three ; one , two , three ; one , two , three .
4 Bair unflinchingly demonstrates the extent to which de Beauvoir was obsessed by Sartre , unwilling and unable to free herself of him and sacrificing everything to him , including other women .
5 He picked a newly constructed swatch of samples up from the desk in front of him and chucked it at Antinou , who caught the flopping thing one-handed and proceeded to fondle it familiarly .
6 His mother came in , fell on her knees in front of him and pressed him to her ; She was gasping and shuddering .
7 There had been a steady diminution — since the operation — in his own interest in dentistry but she had tapped his experience out of him and collected it with care .
8 Reaching out , he took two of the scented sticks from the porcelain jar in front of him and held them in the thread of laser light until they lit .
9 Slide on top of him and slip him into her , gasp with the pleasure and the size of him , warn him to keep still as she reached her first wet climax on top of him , side to side , circular motion , up and down …
10 Some of these girlie fans must think that David is wonderful but I do n't think they want to grab hold of him and shag him to death .
11 She cupped her hands underneath him and eased him over the edge .
12 With a groan , Vitor drew her up against him and pinioned her in his arms .
13 ‘ The Scots do n't look very … amusable , ’ drawled Georgie , picking a bit of 1,000-year-old stone off the wall behind him and aiming it at a tent-peg .
14 But Jane insists she 's still a Gazza fan … and that no-one would be happier than her if he put his troubles behind him and established himself as the best , as well as the most talked about , footballer in the world .
15 You 'll be doing him a favour , she 'd thought , and so as he wandered past the kitchen on a mid-afternoon stroll she crept up behind him and grabbed him by the neck .
16 He took out the photograph which he always carried with him and compared it to the woman he had just seen .
17 He plunged for the side , but with three swift strokes Nails caught up with him and collared him round the neck .
18 He had brought his telescope ashore with him and mounted it in the little dormer window high up under the eaves of the steep-pitched east-facing gable of his house .
19 We sat in there with him and told him about school .
20 He stood up and drew her out of her seat with him and gathered her into his arms .
21 Resorting to a dog-like whine , he complained to Theo : ‘ The dog feels that if they keep him , it will only mean putting up with him and tolerating him in the house , so he will try and find another kennel . ’
22 The man was toying with him and treating him with contempt , by showing just how little he rated him as an opponent .
23 ‘ I went to the front of the house and saw the dogs catch up with him and knock him to the ground .
24 But make sure you do n't miss : as most World War One biplanes had no bomb ports , the pilot had to keep the bomb in the cockpit with him and drop it by hand !
25 Topknot spread his arms above him and muttered something at the sky .
26 But , as he rode , a terrible curiosity began to rise up in him and prick him like a gimlet .
27 Low Churchmen , High Churchmen and Broad Churchmen can all find themselves in him and claim him as Master . ’
28 He struggled even more when four men pounced upon him and pinned him to the ground , but his frantic movements were more an attempt to breathe than to escape .
29 The effort he had put into creating another character , a Daniel Miller , would have turned in upon him and transformed him into his own words .
30 Surely the lightning stroke of heaven should have fallen upon him and destroyed him in the very deed . ’
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